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Language Universals and Variation

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ISBN-10: 0275976823

ISBN-13: 9780275976828

Edition: 2002

Authors: Mengistu Amberber, Peter Collins

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Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal theoretical perspective, including the Principles and Parameters/Minimalist Program, Lexical Functional Grammar and Optimality Theory. A wide range of languages and language families are considered, including Amharic, Arabic, Bantu, Berber, Chamorro, English, French, Japanese, Malyalam, Polish, Spanish, Tagalog, Turkish, and Warlpiri. This is an important addition to the growing body of literature on language universals and variation from…    
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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 6/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Preface
Quirky Alternations of Transitivity: The Case of Ingestive Predicates
Ingestives in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Ingestives and Ambitransitivity
Ingestives as Three-Place Predicates
Explaining Clitic Variation in Spanish
Overview of the Third Person Clitic Paradigm in Spanish
Overview of the Etymological and the Referential Dialects
Accounting for the Etymological Dialect and Referential A Dialects
Contact Dialects
Slavic Passives, Bantu Passives, and Human Cognition
A Framework
Slavic
Bantu
Small Clauses
Prototypicality
The Split VP Hypothesis: Evidence from Language Acquisition
The Split VP Hypothesis
Preverbal Objects
A Split VP Account
Further Prediction
Clausal Architecture
Syntactic Constraints in a "Free Word Order" Language
Composition of Warlpiri AUX
Syntactic Constraints on the Position of AUX
Negative AUX
A Comparative Overview
On the Range and Variety of Cases Assigned by Adpositions
Type I--Languages with One (Main) Adpositional Case
Type II--Languages with More Than One Adpositional Case
Toward a Minimalist Account of Adpositional Case
Optimality and Three Western Austronesian Case Systems
Background: Case System Typology, Optimality and Austronesian
Three Western Austronesian Case Systems in OT
Affixes, Clitics, and Bantu Morphosyntax
Morpholexical versus Morphosyntactic Processes
Verbal Suffixation
Verbal Prefixation
Affixes versus Clitics
Clitics and Inflectional Morphology
On the Architecture of Universal Grammar
Acquired Language Deficit
Language Change
Language Acquisition
Parsing Strategies for Bantu
Two Types of Wh-In-Situ
Lexical Properties
Syntactic Properties
Toward a Nonunitary Account
Null Operator Movement as Feature Movement
Vowel Place Contrasts
Evidence for Peripheral
The Phonetic Realization of Peripheral Vowels
Conclusions and Consequences
Author Index
Index of Languages and Language Families
Subject Index
About the Editors and Contributors